The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-19 00:00:00

HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY'S ARC TIC DISCOVERY EXPEDITION. The lively interest which the British public have for such a length of time manifested in the further discovery of the Arctic regions induced the Hudson's Bay Company to deter mine on equipping an expedition, solely at their own expence, and composed of their own officers and servants, with the view of endeavouring to complete the survey of the northern shores of the American continent, The formation and equipment of the expedition were en trusted to Mr. Simpson, the resident Governor in the spring of 1836. That gentleman on his arrival from England at Nor way-house, Lake Winnipeg, in the month of June of the same year, beat up for volunteers for this arduous service, two active and enterprising leaders, Messrs. P. W. Dease and Thomas Simpson, and twelve men were immediately selected and for warded with the necessary supplies to Fort Chipewayan, Atha basca Lake, where they passed the winter of 1836-7. Imme diately after the opening of the navigation on the Ist June, 1837, the party started from Fort Chipewayan in two small boats which they had constructed in the course of the winter, descended the Slave River, passed the western end of Great Slave Lake, where they were detained several days by ice, and descended Mackenzie's River to Fort Norman, where they arrived on the Ist of July. From Fort Norman they dispatched two of their party, with two other men belonging to Fort Norman, to the eastern end of Great Bear's Lake, for the purpose of erecting a small establishment at which they might take up their quarters for the following winter, and of laying up a stock of provisions preparatory to an extension of their survey in the summer of 1838. These arrangements being made, Messrs. Dease and Simpson, with the remainder of their people, forming a party of twelve in all, continued their route down the Mackenzie, and reached Fort Good Hope, the most northern establishment belonging to the Company on the 40., where they found an assemblage of Hare and I,aucheoux Indians, from they learned that the Esquimaux had killed three of their party a short time previous, which prevented the discoverers taking an interpreter from that On the 9th of July they reached the ocean by the most westerly mouth of the Mackenzie, making its situation in lat. 68 deg. 49 min. 23 sec. N., long. 136 deg. 36 min. 45 sec. W. They had proceeded but a short distance to seaward when a party of nineteen Esquimaux went off to them from Tent Island, who showed a disposition to be troublesome, but :returned to their encampment when they found the party pre par dto defend themselves if necessary. The progress of the party along the coast was very slow, owing to frequent ob structions from ice, cold, dense fogs, and strong head-winds. Oa the afternoon of the 11th they reached Point Kay. where the: found another encampment of Esquimaux, and where th-v were detained by a compact body of ice, occupying P ,dips Bay until the 14th. They continued their route till the 17th, when an unbroken pack of ice extending to seaward 'nee :0 them seek the shore in Camden Bay, near a large camp of Esquimaux, who received them kindly. In the afternoon there apyeared a narrow passage of water through the ice stretch ing outwards, and they immediately embarked, but had not proceeded above three miles from the land when the ice sud denly closed upon them, squeezing one of their boats, which, 'pith their provisions and baggage, they had much difficulty in ming; and by means of portag: a from one piece of ice to another, the oars serving as bridges, they finally got on a large fie-, where they passed an inclement and anxious night. On the 20th they reached Foggy Islands Bay, when they were stopped by ice and a violent north-east wind until the 233, *laving on the preceding day made an ineffectual attempt to w, stlier Point Anxiety, in which they narrowly escaped with a thorough drenching. The latitude ashore was 70 deg. 9 sii;ti. 48 sec. Feon this situation they had the satisfaction of ei . 2scovering a range of the Rocky Mount ins to the west u -rd of the Remanzeff chain, and not seen by Sir J ' e n Franklin, but being within the limit of his se ., vey. called it the Franklin Range, as a just tribute to L i. o n , -enter and merits. That evening- they reached S r John F. anklin's Return Reef. where their survey com menced, that isi.ceer having got no farther. Re:urn Reef is on , o f „h a i„f Beefs which run for twenty miles pareilel to the coast, at the dist:anee of about half a league, affording suilicient water within for their small craft. The mainland is very low. From Point Berens • to Cape Halkett it forms Harrison's Bay, fifty miles beoad, by about a third of that dis tance in depth. At the bottom of this bay ancther picturesque br , nch of the Rocky Mountains Range rears its lofty peak above these flat shores, which they named Pelly's Mountains in'iloeour of the Governor of the Company. At their bas ;flews Colvile's River, two miles broad at its mouth, to th S p a btli-west of which stands Cape Halkett, where they wcr e e s e. ;ned by a north-cast gale the whole of the following day. 71, c ,sentry extending to the felt of the mountains appeared to canals,` of plains covered with short grass and mess, a fa %revise r es e e't of reindeer, of which they sew numerous herds. Ohservetiees were obteined determining Cape Halkett to be in. lat. 70 deg. il mire N., long. 152 deg. 14 min. IV. ; the vas i Lion of the cons;eass 43 deg. 8 min. 33 sec. E. Next morning, 26th July, they passed the Gany, a r:ver about one mile broad. From Cape thlkett the coast turned suddenly off to the :V.N. W. It presented to the eye nothing but a succession of .'ow banks of frozen mud. In the evening they passed the teout,tia of a large stream, which they named Smith's River. From t hence for about nine miles the coast line is formed of gr a v el r eefs, near the extremity of which , at Po i n t Pitt, the r,, i ce until t. : ri trenrta mo re to th e westward. Here the y were detained Iby he following afternoon (27th) , when an opening tr sented itselt, they res u me d their route. It blew a cuttin g ast from the .north-east, and the salt water froze upon :the oars and the rigging. Point Drew, seven miles di 'ant from their last encampment, is the com ity neement of a bay' .of considerable size, but ex tremely shallow, and much encumbered with ice. To sea ward the ice was still smooth and solid, as in the depth of a sunless winter. At midnight trey reached a narrow project jese point, across which the peaks of some high icebergs ap peeeed. This point they named Cape George Simpson, as a mark of respect for the Governor of the Company's territories, to whcette excellent arrangements the success of the expedition is in a great measure indebted. This pennet was destined to he the limit of their boat naviga tion, for dori,ng the four following days they were only able to advance as mar; v miler. The weather was foggy and dismally cold, the wild foes' passed in long flights to the westward, and there seemed little prospect of their being able to reach Bee chey's Point Barros' by water. Boat Extreme is situated in lat. 71 deg. 3 min. 24 sec. N., long. 154 deg. 26 min. 30 sec. NV., variation of compas 42 deg. 36 rnin. 18 sec. E. Under these circumstances Mr. Thomas Simpson under took to complete the journey on foot, and accordingly started On the Ist of August with five men, Mr. Deese and the other five men remaining in eharge of the boats. The pedestrians carried with them their arms, some ammu nition, peruican, a small oiled canvass canoe for crossing the rivers, the necessary astronomical instruments, and a few trinkets for the natives. It was one of the worst days of the whole season, and the fog was so denso that the party were under the necessity of rigidly following the tortnous outline of the coast, which for 20 miles formed a sort of irregular inland lay (being guarded Without by a series of grave! reefs), the shore of which was almost on a level with the water, and intersected by innumerable salt creeks, through which they waded, besides three considerable rivers which they traversed in their porteble canoe. Next day the weather improved, and at noon Mr. Simpson had an observation for lat. in 71 deg. 9 min. 43 sec. The land now inclined to the south-west, and continued very low and muddy, and, as on the preceding day, abounding in salt creeks, whose waters were at the freezing temperature. , The party had proceeded about ten miles, when to their dismay the coast suddenly turned off to the southward, forming an : inlet a; far as the eye could reach. At the same moment they descried at no great distance a smal camp of Esquirsaaux, to which they immediately directed their steps. The men were absent hunting, and the women and children took to their boat in the greatest alarm, leaving behind them an infirm man, who wen; in an agony of fear. A few words of friendship removed his avorehensions, and brought back the fugitives, who were equally sus prised and delighted to behold white men. They sat before the party fresh reindeer meat and seal oil. Mr. Simpson now determined to adopt a 121 ore expeditious mode of travelling, by obtaining the loan of thcir "oomiaks," or family akin canoes, to convey the party to Point Barrow, with which, from a chart drawn by one of the women, it ap peared that these people were well acquainted. Four oars were fitted with lashings to this strange eraft. Before starting the hunters arrived, and presents of tobacco, Awls, buttons, &c., were made to all the inmates of the en campment, with which they were highly gratified. Dease's Inlet is five miles broad at this place, yet so low is the land that the one shore is just visible from the other in the clearest weather. It now again blew strongly from the north-east, bringing back the cold dense fog ; but the traverse was effected by the aid of the compass. The waves ran high, and the skin-boat surmounted them with great buoyancy; the party encamped on the west side of the inlet. The banks there were of frozen mud, ten or twelve feet high ; the -country within was perfectly flat, abounded in small lakes, .and produced a very short grass; but nowhere had the :thaw penetrated more than two inches beneath the surface, ta,'-dle under water along the shore the bottom was still impenetrably frozen. Not a log of wood was to be found in this land of desolation ; but our party followed the example of the natives, and made their fire of the roots of the dwarf wil low in a little chimney of turf. Next morning, August 3, the fog cleared for awhile, but it was still bitterly cold, and the swell beat violently on Oe outside of a heavy line of ice which lay packed upon the short- To weather this was a wo.-k of danger, but the good quali ties of their boat, after a severe trial, carried them safely through. The land ran out for five smiles to the northward, then turned off to the N. W. heyotal which, at Point Christie, the lat. 71 deg. 12 min. 36 sec. was observed. Front thence the coast trended more westerly for ten miles, formin,g two p, >nits and a bay, which Mr. Simpson named after chief fac t' a Charles and Rowand, and chief trader Ross. The party the > came up to what appeared a large bay, where they halts ‘d for two or three hours to await the dispersion of the fog not Knowing which way to steer. In the evening their wish was gratified, and the weather from that time was sensibly ame liorator!. The bay was now ascertained to be only four miles in width : the depth half-way across, was 13- fathom. on a bottom of land ; that of Dease's Inlet was afterwards found to be two fathoms, muddy bottom, being the greatest 411 d‘ - 'nt Barrow, except at ten 'here three fathoms were .ossing Mackenzie's Bay, nine miles to the ' other remarkable objects Beeehey's Cape Barrow, Simpson after the Gover- Bay Company, and other 'ad,. • rt A compact body of ice extended all along, and beyond the ' reach of vision to seaward ; but the party carried their light vessel within that formidable harrier, and made their way through the narrow channels close to the shore. At midnight they passed the mouth of a fine deep river, a quarter of a mile wide, to which Mr. Simpson gave the name of the Bellevue, and in less than an hour afterwards the rising sun gratified him with the view of Point Barrow, stretching out to the N.N. W. They soon crossed Elson Bay, which, in the perfect calm, had acquired a tough coating of young ice, but had much difficulty in making their way through a broad and heavy pack that rested upon the shore. On reach ing it, and seeing the ocean extending away to the southward, they hoisted their flag, and with three cheers took possession of their discoveries in his Majesty's name. Point Barrow is a long low spit, composed of gravel and coarse sand, which the pressure of the ice has forced up into numerous mounds, that, viewed from a distance, assume the appearanee of huge boulder rocks. At the spot where the party landed, it is only a quarter of a mile across, but is broader towards its termination. The first object that pre sented itself on looking round the landing-place, was an im mense cemetery. The bodies lay exposed in the most horrible and disgusting manner, and many of them appeared so fresh that the men became alarmed that the cholera, or some other dreadful disease, was raging among the natives. Two consi derable camps of the latter stood at no great distance on the point, but none of the inmates ventured to approach till our party first visited them, and, with the customary expressions of friendship, dissipated their apprehensions. A brisk traffic then began, after which the women formed a circle, and danced to a variety of airs, some of which were pleasing to the ear. The whole conduct of these people was friendly in the extreme ; they seemed to be well acquainted with the character, if not the persons, of white men, and were passionately fond of tobacco. To the northward enormous icebergs covered the ocean ; but on the western side there was a fine open channel, which the Esquimaux assured the party extended all along to the southward, and so inviting was the prospect in that direction, that had such been his object Mr. Simpson would not have hesitated a moment to prosecute the voyage to Cook's Inlet in his skin canoe. The natives informed him that whales were numerous to the northward of the point, and seals were every where sporting among the ice. It was high water between one and two o'clock A. M. and P M. ; the rise of the tide was fourteen inches, and the flow came from the westward. Observations were obtained which determine the position of the landing-place to be in let 71 deg. 23 min. 33 sec. N., long. 156 deg. 20 min 0 sec. W., agreeing closely with the observations of Mr. Elson. Then bidding adieu to their good-humoured and admiring enter tainers, the party set out on their return. They reached the western mouth of the M'Kenzie on the th of August, and Fort Norman on the 4th of September, fr( m whence their report is dated on the following day. From Fort Norman they were about to proceed to the east ern end of Great Bear's Lake, there to pass the winter, from thence haul their boats across to the Coppermine River, and resume their survey to the eastward at the opening of the na vigation in July next, with the view of connecting the dis coveries of Sir John Franklin and Captain Back from Point Turnagain to Great Fish River, in which, from the activity and perseverance of the leaders, it is confidently hoped they will be successful. depth between itetnrnkeel;,;ii---i'cit mi" S. •iftgra. Calle jjelkett w s unded • real 7iklikr. IA (ter ' en .the co• • . 1 - , -• 7 . .2 T gir ~,, ,e1 tor n "' .t. ; '--- t.: -- ' i e * and be ' . • •',.„, -1 ri5,.. 1 and 0-4 ~ t I to , ~ . for a 77 to..P : n'i I 1. g, vi . . tra :1, il . ' _,=" 1:11'1•1"... SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, DA Y. The Stockton Stakes of 100 sous. each, h. ft., for the produce of mares covered in 1831; colts, Bst. ilb ; fillies, Bst. 31b. D.M. 5 Subs. Mr. Thornhill's b. c. by St. Patrick, out of Mercy Conelly 1 Alr. Biggs's f. Clara, by St. Patrick, out of Whisk 4tol on Clara. Won by half a length. Match, 200 h. ft. D. M.—Lord Chesterfield's Scroggins, Bst. 10!b., received from Mr. Thornhill's Egcria, Bst. 11b. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. ; colts, Sst. 71b ; fillies, Bst. 41b. D. 3L 4 Subs. General Grosvenor's ch. e. Dwdalus, by Buzzard ... walked over Subscription Plate of 50/. ; for the three yrs old, 7st ; four, Bst. 71b - and five, 9st. T. Y.C. Colonel Peel's Paganini, 3 yrs Mr. Bird's Red hank, 5 yrs Lord G. Bentinck's The Bodach Glas The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord Exeter's ilybiscus, 4 yrs; Mr. Ford's b. f. Hannah, 3 yrs; Mr. Newton's Vacuna, 3 yrs. Betting-6 to 5 agst Redshank, 10 to 6 agst Hy biseus. Won by two lengths. The Column Stakes of 50 cove. each, h. ft , for three years old ; colts, Bst. 7lb ; fillies, Bst. 41b. Those by untried stallions, or out of untried mares, allowed 31b ; if both, 51h. R.M. 20 Subs. Duke of Portland's c. by Taurus J. Day 1 Lord Exeter's f. Mecca, by Sultan Mr. W. Edwards's e. Bullcalf, by Taurus The following also sta:•ted, but were not p!aced :—Mr. Barrett's b. e. Quo Minus (late Cara Bey), by Zinganee (both untried); Mr. Pettit's b. f. Anne Boleyn. by Taurus, out of Mary Anne (both untried) ; Mr. Osbaldeston's c. Ailerston, by Brutandorf, out of Peter Pindar's dam ; and Mr. Houldsworth's ch. c. by Sultan, out of Turelli. Betting-3 to 4 on c. by Taurus. 3 to 1 agst Mecca, and 6to 1 agst Torelli colt. Won easy. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. D. M. 3 Subs. Lord Jersey's c. Abdallah, by Ishmael, out of Alea, Bst. 71b., received forfeit. ..Paris Lord Jersey's Phoenix has been declared not to start either f.,r the Stakes to-morrow or for the 2,000 Guineas Stakes. He has since been backed for 7001. or tkoo/. at 7 to 1. Further particulars of Tuesday's Races. The Coffee-Room Stakes.—The lot proceeded in a canter to the new ground, where Wave, who had been in front, got into running ; at the T. Y. C. winning post the Acacia filly left the rear, and at the same spot Magawiska, Guava, and Masquerade gave way altogether. 'Wave maintained her lead into the cords, where the Acacia filly, which had been gradu ally drawing upon her, went up, leading her almost without a struggle, and won by a length. Match.—Saintfoin had the best of the race throughout, and won easy. Tuesday's Riddlesworth.—Mecca made play inio the cords, where the horse failed in an attempt to collar her, and was beaten by a length. Oatlands Stakes.—Corban maieall the running, Cowboy waiting till past the Duke's stand, where he ran by him with- ' out anything like a race, and won in a canter by three lengths. Mic Mac was beaten off a long way. The weather continues unfavourable ; the wind is still violent, with every now and then a slight fall of rain or snow ; the meeting, in fact, bears a very wintry character. Previous to the races Mr. Bond's race-horses, and a few others, were put up by auction, but not one sold. In the evening there was the usual muster before the rooms, without any material improvement in business. SWEEPSTAKES (TO-MORROW.) 5 to 2 on Bamboo agst Dmdalus. 2,000 GUINEAS STAKES, P.P. (NEXT MEETING.), 2 to I was betted agst Phoenix, and the same agst Bamboo to about one hundred pounds each ; the odds were afterwards offered. Some even bets were made between the two. DERBY. The reported trial betwee;B;nboo, Cellist°, and Cowboy, and the easy style in which the latter, carrying the top weight, won the Oatlands, had a distinct effect on the betting, several parties having taken 9 to 1 about Bamboo, besides putting on a little for the 2,000 Guinea Stakes. Plicenix was backed at 7to 1, the layers being the first to shut up. Grey Momus was rather on the go. The Epsom party supported their nag ( Amato) with spirit, and gave him another lift. Nothing said about Scott's horses. The following were the last prices :- 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Phenix—taken 9 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo—takers 13 to 1 agst Ld G. Bentinck's Grey Momus 15 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Alemdar—take 16 to 1 33 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Amato--taken 50 to 1 agst Gen. Grosvenor's Daedalus—taken 5 to 4 laid on Phoenix agst Bamboo. THE ARMY. It is now rumoured that the Hon. Colonel Cathcart, at pre sent in Canada on a particular service, is to succeed to the command of the King's Dragoon Guards, on the retirement of Sir George Teesdale, Colonel Cathcart paying the dif ference between infantry and cavalry. The gallant officer, although last commanding the Bth Regiment of Foot, corn menced his military career in the cavalry, having served in the Ca: bineers and the 7th Hussars. It is very likely that an exchange of depots of regiments will is the course of the summer take place between those in this comatry and in Ireland. Th head-quarters of the ,95th Regiment is now at Newry.' We regret to hear that seYeral General Officers, colonels of regiments, are at present dangerously ill. The 88th, or Connaught Rangers, is the first regiment for Ireland, and not the 8-stb., at reported. Captain Rose, formerly of the 15th Hussara, is about to NI appointed to a troop in the Life Guards, The different battalions of the Guazds were all under arms on Monday in consequence of the procession attendazt on the Dorchester labourers. —Morning Paper. MRS. S. C. HALL'S NEW WORK. —W e are requested to state that the new work entitled " Lights and Shadows of Irish Life," by Mrs. S. C. Hall, authoress of " The Buccaneer, " Uncle Horace," &e., in 3 vols. post Bvo., is published thilq day by Mr. Colburn, Great Marlbo rough-street, and may be had at all the Libraries. Mr. Col burn has also just published " Nourroahal, the Light of the Harem," an Oriental Romance, by M. J. ,Quin, Esq., Author of " A Steam Voyage down the Danube," L' - c. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. The Bombay papers contain an account , (coal the Sandwich I s l an ds Gazette o f th e me lancholy tOss .0 f ;he James Calvin, which took fire at sea through the negLgenae of the cook, who capsized his lamp among some shavings And fat, Ind neglected to give an alarm. The unfortunate man cut big _throat on the discovery of the fire. CaptainNfaugham and the crew were saved in the Catatcha, of Nantucket, Captain Coltman, which fortunately hove in sight at the time. He rendered ali nossible assistance, and safely landed them at the Sandwich Isfan‘ds. Accounts from Canton to the 2d of January, are contained in these papers. Another edict had been issued by the Governor respecting the opium receiving 1 ships, threatening the stoppage of the legitimate trade, occa sioned by the practices of tie wium smugglers, who are nue naced to he made .exaelples.ol. - Business was said to be pru ceeding very clowly. The Asnetiea,n 'brig 'Theodore, ,Captain Farring,rdou, from Singapore, Nwas .les , t,off the noaat of Lueouia , on the 25th of November. All onl)oard Nnre,saved,.and,had arrived at Manilla. SAPIENT .JURY.—At the Shrewsbury Qua,rter, Sessions, last week, Joseph Giles, f2rraerly foreman j tho employ of Mr. J. Topham, butcher, was tried for et a b egz i e _ ment, when the Jury acquitted him, and, amidst roars of laughter, reepturneticled him SA Worcester vugraiax. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1838. WINDSOR-WEDNESDAY. Lady Barham arrived yesterday, es Lady in Waiting, in the room of Lady .Qortruan. Lord Gardner al:.o arrived vesterriay. The Queen still continues to be confined to the - Castle by the coldness of the weather. It is expected that her Majesty will leave for Buckingham Palace about the 23d or 24th inst., On the 25th there will be a levee, and the following day a drawing-room, at St. James's. The Dean of Chester is expected to arrive at the Castle to-day. The Earl of Durham, Lord and Lady Uxbridge, and Lady Eleanor Paget, and Lord Glenelg arrived to-day. At the Royal dinneryesterday evening there were present — the Queen, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Mary Stopford, the Hon. C. Murra), Lady Barham, Lord and Lady Gardner, Viscounts Melbourne and Palmerston, Duke of Argyll, Lord and Lady John Russell, Baroness Lehzen, Col. Wemyss, Miss Lister, Hon. Colonel and Miss Cavendish, and Miss Davys. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. The Princess Augusta dined with the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. Prince George of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge were present at the performance of Lucia de Lam mermoor, on Tuesday evening, at her Majesty's Theatre. Despatches from Sir John Colborne, Governor of the Cana das, were received yesterday morning, at the Colonial-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bold, at the St. James's Royal Ho tel, St. James's-street; Mr. and Miss Armstrong, at ditto, from Liverpool ; Messrs. Henry and Roe, at ditto, from Dublin; H. Littledale, Esq., at ditto, from Liverpool; the Earl of Derby, in Grosvenor-square, from Knowsley Park; Lady Clifton and family, in Cumberland-place ; the Hon. E. Byng, in Clarges-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Ames, in Here ford-street, Park-lane from Herts ; the Dowager Lady Water park, in Hereford-street; Lady Montford, in Park-lane ; Lord Castlereagh, in Chapel-street, Park-lane, from Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire; Mr. Pigot, M.P., in Chapel-street, G osvenor-square, from Shropshire ; Mr. Wharton, at the Albany Chambers, Piccadilly; Mr. Gordon, M. P., in Dover street, from Kemble House, Cirencester; Colonel Salwey, M. P., in Cleveland-row; Mr. and Mrs. Frankland Lewis, in Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square; Mrs. Cecil Fane, in Hereford-street; Viscountess Barrington and family, in Ca %eadish-square, from Showenham, Berks ; Lady and Miss Coote, in Connaught-place; the Earl of Glengall, in Gros en3,--street, from Cah r Castle, Tipperary ; the Dowager Viscountess Dillon, at Bute House, from Cheltenham ; the Marchioness of 11-eadalbane, in Park-lane, from her seat, Tay mouth Castle, Perthshire; the Earl and Countess Kinnoul, in Green-street, from their seat, Duplin Castle, Perthshire ; Lady Gibney, from Cheltenham ; Lady Powerscourt, in Do ver-street, from Bath ; Lord and Lady Ravensworth, at Percy Cross, from their seat, Ravensworth Castle. DEPARTURES. General Sharpe, and Mrs. Sharpe, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Tunbridge Wells ; Colonel and Lady Alice Peel, from ditto, for their seat, Buckin,gham House, Brandon ; the Earl of Yarborough, from Arlington street, for his seat. Appuldercombe, Isle of Wight, Sir Geo. Sinclair, from Suffolk-street, for the .eft of Mr. Wm. Beckett, Kirkstall Grarge, near Leeds; Sir John Shelley, from Bd grave-,quare, for Newmarket ; Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, from Curzon-street, for Harewood House, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Harc, , wood ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Tollemache, for Dover; Lord Loftus, for Brighton ; Mr. and Lady Emily F.ley, from George-street, Hanover-square, for Leamington Fp t; Mr. Divett, M. P., and Mrs. Divett, from King-street, for his scat, Bystock, Exmouth ; the Countess of Minto and the Lad:es Elliot, from the Admiralty, for East bourn,-, Sussex; the Earl of March, from Portland-place, for Newmarket; Lord and Lady Ashley, from Grosvenor sfreet, for Tunbridge Wells ; Lord Villiers, from Berkeley. square, for Newmarket ; Viscount Maidstone, from Suffolk street, fur Methley Park, near Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, on a visit to tiv , Earl of Mexborough ; Sir John Cockburn, from Grove-road, fo:. Leamington Spa ; the Hon. Edward Stopford, for Warwickshire; the Earl of Shelburne, from Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square, for Brighton; the Dowager Countess of Cowper and Lady Fanny Cowper, from Berkeley-square, for Tunbridge Wells ; the Hon. Geo. and Lady Agnes Byng, from Earn crare, for Newmarket the Earl of Haddington, from Borkelo -square, for his seat, Tynningham House, Preston Kirk, N.B. ; Lady Agnes Buller, frcm Clarges-street, for Brighton; Sir John Mordaunt, M. P., from Cavendish-square, for his seat, Walton-hall, Kineton ; Lord G. Bentinck, from Cavendish-square, for Newmarket ; the Earl and Countess of Verulam, from Grosvenor-square, for their seat, Gorhambury, Hertfordshire ; Viscount Canning, from Grosvenor-square, for Cowes, Isle of Wight ; Lord Colville, from Portland place, for Tunbridge Wells ; Lord and Lady Erskine and family, from Rapp's Hotel, Golden-square, for Munich ; Ro bert Alson, T. Douglas, and W. Brown, Esqrs., from the St. James's Hotel. St. James's-street, for Cheltenham ; E. D. Sandford, Esq., and A. M'Neill, Esq., from ditto, for Edin burgh; Wm. R. Collett, Esq., from ditto, for 'Worcester shire; Alexander Reid, Esq., from ditto, for Cheshire; J. D. Wood, Esq., from ditto, for Paris ; Alexander Wood, Esq., from ditto, for Edinburgh ; B. B. Williams and kiss Wil liams, from Portland-place, for Salcombe Park, Herts. CHANGES. The Countess of Mexborough, at her seat, Methley Park, near Feriybridge, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Warwick, at WariAick Castle; the Earl and Countess of Glasgow, on a visit to Lord and Lady F. Fitzclarencc, at their Etal House, Berwick-on-Tweed, from their scat, Kel burn House, Ayrshire; the Duke of Rutland, at Newmarket, from his seat, Belvoir Castle; the Marquis of Camden, at St. Leonard's, from his seat, the Wilderness, near Seven oaks ; Sir Joseph Copley, Bart, at Leamington Spa, from his seat, Sprotborough Hall, near Doncaster; Lord Gardner, at Newmarket, from a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle • Sir Edward Tucker, Bart., at Fareham , f rom Cowes, Isle of 'Wight ; Lord and Lady Howick, at Leamington Sp; from a visit to Lord and Lady Dacre, at the Hoo, Hefts ; the Hon. Alfred Harbourd, at Slelton Mowbray, from Warwick. shire • Lord Macdonald, at Melton Mowbray, fro m a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at his seat, Belvoir Castle • Lord and ' Lady Southampton, at their seat, Whittlebury Lodge, Tow cester, from Cheltenham. Sir Thomas Cochrane will entertain his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and a distinguished party this evening at his mansion in Great Cumberland-street. The Marchioness of Downshire has issued cards for a soiree dansante on the 27th instant, at her mansion in Ha novTheer-uare. sq Duke of Wellington and party will continue at Strathfieldsaye until Tuesday next, when his Grace will re turn to town, to preside at a charity dinner in the city, on Wednesday. His Royal Highness Prince William of Lowenstein Wertheim will return to Mivart's Hotel the latter end of next week from a tour in the provinces. The Duke of Beaufort left town yesterday for New market, where a brilliant circle of sporting Noblemen and their Ladies has assembled. Lord Prudhoe, brother and heir presumptive to the Duke of Northumberland, has left Marseilles for Syria, where his Lordship intends to prosecute a three months' tour, and re turn to England at the close of the summer. Prince Nicholas Esterhazy (son of the Austrian Ambassador) and some of the suite of his Excellency have left Chandos House to meet the Countess Mary Ch l iwnisky, sister to Prince Nicholas, at Paris, where she is expected, on her way from Vienna. It is reported that Archdeacon Hodgson is about to lead to the altar the accomplished daughter of Lord Denman. —Derby Paper. The Dowager Duchess of Roxburgh, who died last week at Richmond, was buried yesterday at the General Cemetery, Kensall-green, in the family vault, beside her last husband, the Hon. John Tollemache, who was interred there about a year ago. Her Grace of Roxburgh is the third Duchess interred in this cemetery within the last year or two. h c ci Captain p i continuese d during Frederick to o the re s i fashionable Spencer, the M. season p. familyan da e b a y t Athe family.. :horp Park, Northamptonshire, famous for its matchless li- Earl Spencer's family mansion, in St. James'-square, i H H 3 o i to s n o uLbroaerbdl occupied and costly collection of pictures by the anci e nt and bra."Y mo d e rn masters. St. 3,eonard's is uncommonly full of visitors. The Lady John Russell. The Marquis of Lothian re- Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury and Lady Mary Talbot hare W e dnesday evening from an aquatic excursion of a arrived at the Royal Hotel, where apartments have been taken he Marquis of Camden has taken his departure ess. Arrivals—Sir George Rose, Lady G. tal f f l ue, Li z a jaf rd 7 anri ir faaso..ruitllhie,eactiy Ladd`i.Rli4;le:collie, ourtenay, Hon. Wm. Howard, M. p, Lady Carr, Hon. Major Keppel,Sir John Lady Al. I j2 T om uf e tan, fro & m e. win „her. Departures —Hon. Charles Law, Lady Elizabeth deirson, &e. The Loudon and Birmingham Railway coopleted, liave absorbed a capital of six millions. is.:N UsPLEASANT SITUATION.—. will, when Mr. Agar as h an old a nag An old gentle men ,of th e name of Agar, living at Warfield, found - himself very unplt •asantly situated a few niets since, favourite return selif ma his re *armed Bleu •i 1 c t J u a rt e n k h , o u .m n v h d ee e under whose r o w tin h o oh.sles market;care sor i) r i s e seo g h e he n e e r hw a aa l d l s y done on the awoke a o c k e e s f h r i omm ,ev.ersing an ' / 0 4"1' i . d with d • • • had been accompanie a delightful dream, " nap vsvaildn lashing of water, and to his alarm found him by the suds' , In splashing near W . k .self fa the c alntro of a large pond .in field church, into which Blac I t Jack had every unceremoniously taken him. Mr. Agar very i l atsically, as most others would have done, cried out for help, „ and h e w as eventually, after consider a bl e diffi culty, got es , t s by the un ited exertions of . some ten or fif tee n labwarers wl so wer e on the ground, but little the worse for the occurrence. This we should hope will be a caution to the old gentlen sr in to endeavour to keep his eyes open in future.— Rending Of k•''PurY A .gent Icarian finding his servant intoxicated, said— ,k, .7sVhat, dr 4 „k again, Sam ? I scolded you for being drunk fl.e.st night, irats4 here you are drank aghin." " No, massa • same,drunk„ snassa, tame drunk," replied Sambo. EF I FEC r$ OF DRUNK. - 4NNESS.—During last Fri day and Sat ,nrday six persona were brought to St. I3artholo meav 'sents Hos vital with broken lgs, In Svc of these cases the accid a t op from drunisenneess, Due. MAILS. Arrived, Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. 0 A:::frica...., ..... '2 1 Vrane: , e ............ 0i 9 1-i ''''' 11 31:1.7ti 0 P.' ,, 1 , “::.-iyre ,- , 0 0 H.:ll:burg .. 0 . 0 fq ,,, r"----- 0 c,,,,-, geria _. . , 0 Hoilaml 1 Dublin... .. 0 0 Jamaica 0 I 0 Sweden 0 0 Flanders • 1 0 Leeward Islands 0I 0 Waterford 1 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning HEIRS AT LAW, AND NEXT OF KIN.- Upwards of Seven Hundred ADVERTISEMENTS, wlsich have appeared in the Daily Papers within the last Twenty Years, will be RE-PUBLISHED in the successive Numbers of the WEEKLY TRUE SUN, beginning the 29th of April. The WEEKLY TRUE SUN is a Large Quarto Paper of Forty Columns, Price 5d., conducted by D. W. HARVEY, Esq. , M.P., to whom communications may be addressed, at 366, Strand. Orders will be executed by all Postmasters and Newsmen in the United Kingdom. SHE COURT JOURNAL GAZETTE of the FASHIONABLE WORLD of SATURDAY NEXT will contain CORONATIONS and THE CORONATION — Making an Offer, and a Note on Marriages in High Life—lrene, the Cantatriee (continued)—The Cathedral of Cologne, a Legen dary Tale—The Newmarket Craven Meeting—The National Pie tures, Exhibitions, Easter Novelties, and all the Fashionable, Lite rary, Dramatic, and Musical Gossip of the Week. W. Thomas, Publisher, 19, Catherine-street, Strand. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen, Postage Free. DETER In the press, a new Edition of PLYMLEY'S LETTERS. London : Longman and Co. The publication of Tux St NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. We have been favoured by an account, from one of the parties concerned, of the events in Hanover and Gottingen in November, which ended in the dismissal of the seven Professors, and insert it elsewhere. It was wished, we are informed, to have this narrative published at Leipsic, but it was not allowed ; and another article from the same hand, which was printed under the title of " What do the Middle Classes want ?" was suppressed when on the eve of delivery, in consequence, as we are told, of a communication from Berlin. We shall, we hope, find room to insert that article also, before the recess is at an end ; and we believe our readers will find it a calm exposition o 1 the present wishes of the most intelligent of the Ger mans. Our own letters from Hanover, of a late date, speak in the most gloomy terms of the probable future of that, up to the time of Prince ERNEST'S accession, peaceful and comparatively prosperous land. Our Correspondents express much astonishment that the English press, generally so attentive to whatever threatens the welfare of Europe, should be so silent and so regardless of the affairs of Hanover, which excite in Germany that settled and abiding interest, bordering on deep discontent, which, at no distant day, will involve all its Sovereigns in difficulties, and probably on some of them, will bring great disaster and ruin. Prince ERNEST'S conduct is felt to be an insult to the faithful followers of his house, as well as an injury to their liberties. The men he has chosen for his confidants, the chief Ministers of his arbitrary rule, are men, who in the time of BUONAPARTE deserted the GUELPHS, and endeavoured, as the in struments of King JEROME to deprive them of their ancient territories, and destroy the ancient organiza• tioii of their father-land. SCHEELE and LEIST, the favourites of Prince ERNEST were traitors to GEORGE 111. and GEORGE IV.; and those who in the time of the usurpation remained faithful to the GUELPHS have now the mortification to see those who deserted them rewarded by GEORGE the Third's favourite son. This mortification and the insult to the loyalty of the Hanoverians has sunk deep into their minds, and they are thoroughly con vinced of the bad intentions of Prince ERNEST, by the tools he employs to carry them into effect. Of Mr. LEIST'S former treachery the papers have lately supplied a useful example, which reviving the recol lections of the Hanoverians, will make them, for old loyalty's sake, dislike more and more the Prince and his BUONAPARTE tools. In a late meeting of the States, Mr. LEIST then filling the situation of the KING'S Commissioner, reproached Mr. HuGo, one of the first jurists of the age, and the representative of Gottingen, with opposing the wishes of the KING, which was particularly obnoxious in him, said Mr. LEIST, because the GUELPHS had done so much for Gottingen. Immediately Dr. CHRISTIAN! rose and read from the Westphalian Mercury of 1810, a paragraph to the following effect :—" To-day Mr. LEIST, Counsellor of State, had the honour to present the Professors of the University (Gottingen), to his Ma jesty King JEROME, and addressed his MAJESTY in a speech which began with these words During the few years of your Majesty's Government, your Majesty has done more for the town of Gottingen, than the whole House of GUELPH, during the long reign of several Sovereigns.' " The confusion of Mr. LEIST at being thus properly reminded of his past treachery, is of far less importance than the fact, that the anec dote will remind the Hanoverians of the antecedents of th e present favourites of Prince ERNEST, and will convince them that this arbitrary Prince makes as light of that attachment to his family, on which they pride themselves, as of their liberties. To that attachment, he owes the present possession of power ; and by re warding those who were traitors to his family, he does what he can to destroy the strong hold he now has on their obedience. The lovers of raree-shows at Leeds and Salford must have enjoyed themselves prodigiously during the Easter holidays, for they have had an opportunity of seeing gratis two live Baronets—Sir FRANCIS BURDETT and Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR—each of whom is as fine a holiday spectacle as the well known calf with three legs. As for the former, we will match him as a phmnomenon against any that has been heard or read of since the days of CERVANTES ; and so far from wondering, therefore, at his attracting vast crowds at the towns which he has astonished with his presence, we are only surprised that the whole North did not congregate to have a stare at him. Let any one read his last speech delivered on the last day of the holidays at Salford, and then judge whether or not we are correct in pronouncing Sir FRANCIS BURDETT to be a curiosity of th© very first class. Not only is this unaccountable old man pouring out daily the most envenomed abuse against all those with whom he acted for thirty years, and exhibiting the most in disputable signs of political fanaticism in the style in which he speaks of O'CONNELL ; but he actually seems to be taking a perverse—and to our thinking wholly un intelligible—pleasure in showing his audience how much intense and original nonsense can be spoken in the smallest conceivable space of time. To say merely that he is an apostate, is doing him imperfect justice. He is the founder of an entirely new school of apostacy, having changed his creed without—so he himself assures us—being in the slightest degree aware of the change ; and advocating the rankest Toryism, in the full persuasion that it is the best possible Radicalism. Alas, how deep-rooted must have been the vanity—how inveterate the itch for notoriety—that brought about a state of mind like this ! But Mr. O'CONNELL has occasioned it all. He it is—and no other—that has obnubilated Sir FRANCIS BURDETT'S intellects, and rtrffic him an apoFtate from shc•:°r berilderment of 1:1F :. , - , riur , ;(l 11;3 FOlf- , ;iinreit :titntirl. to madness ; and under the influence of this hallucination, the poor humiliated Baronet is everywhere volunteering the most preposterous oratorical absurdities. And this word "absurdities" reminds us of Lord MAIDSTONE'S speech at Salford, which was just the sort of thing calculated to be attractive at the Easter-holidays. The Noble Lord not only abused DANIEL as a buffoon who beat any thing at Astley's"—we bow meekly to his Lordship's knowledge of what is necessary to constitute a good buffoon—but he mimicked him so happily that, says the Reporter, he drew fourth shouts of laughter. We like this trait of character. It shows that the heir of the Earldom of Winchelsea is not merely a promising senator, but a man of popular and versatile talent, who in the event of that revolution —which he is fond of talking about—coming to pass, might win high renown as a mimic at a minor theatre, or earn a handsome livelihood by grinning through a horse-collar at Bartholemew Fair. " Church or no Church, is the question which the MELBOURNE Ministry are about to submit to Par liament." So says the Times of this morning, in re ference to the appointment of a Committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the management of Church property. It were easy to show the absur dity and wickedness of this statement What was the leading feature i❑ the plan for the abolition of Church rates proposed by the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CEIEQUER ? The retention by the Clergy of the whole of the income they at present receive, whilst by an im proved system of management the value of the estates would be vastly increased, and the Dissenters be re lieved from the payment of an unjust, an oppressive, and a galling impost. This is really the question which is to be submitted to Parliament—whether the Established Church shall be allowed to perpetuate a system which is corrupt at its very core—which con verts Bishops and other Ecclesiastics into jobbing Landlords, who, having but a life tenure of the pro perty they hold, have a direct interest in exacting from lessees the uttermost farthing in the shape of fines, regardless alike of the injury they inflict upon agriculture, or upon their successors? It is a notorious fact, that Church lands, and buildings belonging to the Church, are in a worse condition than any other in the country. And to what can this be attributed but to the discouragements occasioned by fines upon renewals of leases ? It is the interest of the tenant, especially towards the termination of his lease, to have his land exhausted and his build ings in ruins. Nor is this system less injurious to the Ecclesiastic than it is to the property itself. To say nothing of its moral influence—of the desire of gain, which it must inspire in him who ought not to be a " lover of filthy lucre," but who ought to devote him self entirely to the exalted duties of his sacred calling, —of his degradation in the eyes of those who ought to regard him as infinitely superior to the debasing desire of becoming rich, at the expense of those to whom he should set an example of spiri tuality of mind and of Heaven-directed ambition— does it not cause a most unequal and unfair distribution of wealth amongst the holders of the same sees or livings ? We believe it to be a fact, that the present Archbishop of CANTERBURY received, during the last year that he was Bishop of LONDON, 80,0001. for fines alone. Of course his successor must be a sufferer, because of the diminished regular income of the see—or the successor of the present Bishop, if death should be peculiarly propitious by removing the present lessees at an unusually rapid rate. These crying evils it was the intention of Ministers to remove by the Bill they brought into the last Parliament. Then their facts were denied ; their calculations impugned ; and they consequently obtained a Committee to inquire into and report upon both. The labours of that Committee were prematurely brought to a close by the demise of the Crown. Ministers now propose to appoint a new Committee for the same purpose. It is against the appointment of this Committee that the artillery of the Tory Press is directed, and that a Society of high Churchmen has been formed in London which is to have branches and cor responding members all over the Kingdom. It is not against the Bill of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER—it is not against the abolition of Church rates—that their effects are primarily to be directed. It is against enquiry. Will not their very endeavours frustrate their object ? If there be all this anxiety and alarm when enquiry is proposed, is it not plain that the matter will not bear enquiry—and is not an addi tional motive to strenuous and determined efforts sup plied to the opponents of Ecclesiastical abuses ? We have laboured long to remove them, and the alarm which we see now prevails amongst the friends of those abuses encourages us to persevere, and to hope that our exertions will in the end be successful. The SPOTTISWOODE Gang, and its application of the funds it coaxed out of the Parsons and their wives, is fresh in the public recollection. It made most mag nificent promises, and was to unseat half the Members for Ireland. It did nothing but divide the funds, as the Herald and Standard remarked, amongst some family connections of those who were chiefly concerned in getting up the subscriptions. The cunning managers of that scheme seem to have aimed, by pandering to the passions of the bigots, to get something for themselves ; and they treated their deluded subscribers in a manner worthy of their cause. As that game is up another is to be tried. The defence of the Church is still, however, to be the pretext for taxing its vota ries. The Times of this morning announces the for mation of a new lay Society to protect the Church, as it was to be protected by the SPOTTISWOODE gang. Of whom it is to be composed is not yet known, but there is a Secretary already provided. A Treasurer will not be wanting, and those office-bearers, who are to be amply paid for their labour, will soon be found. Friends of the Church—we beg leave to remind you of the SPOTTISWOODE gang, and to warn you in time, that you look to your pockets. London abounds with clever tricksters. In another part of our Paper will be found a highly-interesting narrative of an expedition, fitted out by Governor SIMPSON, of the Hudson's Bay Company, under the command of Mr. T. DBASE and Mr. THOMAS SIMPSON, a relative of the Governor's, to explore the North West passage. These enterprising voyagers may now claim the merit of having at last solved this grand geographical problem. It is now put beyond a doubt that a pas sage exists between the two continents. By the despatch of our Private Correspondent in Dublin, we are to-clay, again, enabled to anticipate all the regular arrivals from that City, and are thus enabled to lay before our readers intelligence much sooner than could be conveyed through the ordinary channels of communication. It will be seen in another part of The Sun that on Tuesday last Mr. O'Corr- NELL again met his constituents, and argued at great length against the Ministerial measure for the relief of the suffering, destitute mass of his wretched fellow countrymen. Our own views on the Poor-law question have so frequently been expounded—we have so often and so earnestly insisted in The Sun, ons, ttsi 1; ap pears to us the strong, self-evident ueoessity of doing something promp t l y (h owever s h or t of the rerformanoo of a perfect lezislativol measure), to relieve Ow frightful misery by which the poor peasantry of unhappy Ire -1b..). arr presd down--._-that to ye- ••!.- ".-,, " cL "Jr ; 1- , e! th:nk , t • -1-171... by taxing their patience with a IN earisoine repetition of arguments with which they all cannot fail to be familiar. Whether Mr. O'CoNNELL, when he embarked last Tuesday on his crusade against a legal provision for the poor, steered quite clear of the rock of repetition—or whether, on the contrary, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman is obnoxious to the imputa tion of having offered to his audience nothing new, but that he served up the self-same stale, obsolete, and thread-bare arguments which have been before refuted—we leave our readers to determine. Our opinion is, that Mr. O'CONNELL has told us only the old story, in not his happiest and most convincing manner. The Paris Journals of Tuesday received this mour ning, announce, that greatly to the disappointment of the monied interest, the debate on the Five per Cent. Reduction Bill did not commence on Monday owing to the sudden illness of the Finance Minister. Early on Tuesday, however, the question was brought for ward by M. DELABORDE, who made a long oration against the proposed scheme, on the ground of its in rolving a breach of national faith. He was not fol lowed by any of the leaders of the Chamber, as anti cipating a protracted debate they seemed resolved to reserve themselves for the important task of bringing it to a conclusion. In the Chamber of Peers, on Tues day, the Bill for the levy of 80,000 recruits of the Conscription for 1837, was adopted without a division. There is no news from Spain in these Journals. (From the Papers.) The Majesteure, a three decker, has been drawn to-day from the mud in the Darse, on which it had run aground. It must be thoroughly careened, for which purpose it will be hauled. ashore by the end of this month. This is the first ship that has been subjected to this operation, which will require grey preparations. The day before yesterday, in the evening, an express ar rived here with despatches from the Government for Admiral Roussin, our Ambassador at Constantinople, and for Rear - Admiral Gallois, commanding the squadron in the Levant. The Feetor (of the line) sailed yesterday for Smyrna, where it is to remain under the command of Admiral Gallois, who will thus have a large naval force. It is generally believed that the Turkish fleet will shortly sail again, and, on the other hand, it is positively known that great naval preparations aro, making at Alexandria.—Debats. VIENNA, APRIL B.— A courier who arrived yesterday brought word that the Emperor of Russia will b e a t Toplaa. on the 15th of next June. The Archduchess Louisa or Parma will arrive here in the month of May.—Swabian Mercury. The Imperial Letter by which the State takes possession of the 32 fortified towns erected near Lenz, according to the, plans and at the expense of the Archduke Maximilian of. Este, has just been addressed to the competent authoritief . . A division of artillery, and another of pioneers are gone to Lenz. FRANKFORT, APRIL 9. —lt is said that the officers of 02° Castle of Johannisberg have received orders to prepare all the apartments for the reception of Prince Metternich, towards Ow end of June.—Anqsburg Gazette. The Ottoman Porte has addressed to the Foreign Ministers an official note, remonstrating against the custom of the foreign Courts at Smyrna, which has been abolished by treaties, of giving patents of protection to subjects of the Porte, in order by that means to withdraw them from the Turkish jurisdiction. The Governor of Smyrna has re ceived orders to take these patents from all inhabit ants of Turkish origin who still have them in their possession. —Le Commerce. FRENCH FUNDS.—PiaIs, APRIL 17. Five per Cents., Intif. 75c. Four and a Half per Cents. 1031. 50c. Four per Cents., 10If. 25c, three per Cents., SIC ainf. E lf. Bank Actions, 2,670 f. 2,(160f. 2,670£ ltente de Naples, 10. T. Inof. sc. 100 E Roman Five per Cents., 103. Spanish Actives, 21%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102%. Haytian Loan, 475 f. • excnsimait ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 55c. ; money, 251. Sse Three months, paper, 25f. 40c. ; money, 55t. 40e. Advices from Constantinople, of the 28th ult.t., 11 0 e been received this morning. The fears entcztained of a rupture between the SULTAN and the. Viceroy ° f EGYPT were fast subsiding. The Porte, it iwas stated, would only send a small army of observation to , the Syrian frontier, with a view to deter MEHEMET ALI from exceeding the limits of his present usurped authority. On the 25th Mr. KNIGHT, the English gentleman who accompanied Messrs. BELL and LONGWORTH into Circassia, in order to rouse the population against Russia, arrived in Constantinople- He had a narrow escape, having been pursued for fif teen hours by four Russian cruisers. His brave com panions were to follow him in about a month. 1 1 °' was convinced that without the interference of some' friendly Power, the Circassians could not hold out; much longer against the armies poured into that country by Russia. The tribes could furnish military force of three hundred thousand men but they had neither arms nor ammunition/ and consequently were comparatively powerless in o' 2 ' plains. As they could not withstand Russia in tile' field, it was impossible for them to attempt the cultiva tion of their scanty but necessary crops, or to erect for themselves permanent dwellings in any situation Yisible . : to the enemy. But worse than all, R uss i an gold an d Russian emissaries had fond their way among the w ' . and many a patriot had yielded to a temptation whic h ' the almost certainty of death, in the:event of rejectiow rendered irresistible. Once mistress of the Caucasus, and Turkey and Persia are at the feet of Russia. And yet England and France fold their arms, and prat e about preserving the peace of the world The Journal de Smyrne of the 31st ult. contains the following :—" We have have received a copy of the con,- mercial treaty which has been entered into between Greece and Great Britain. It is founded on broad and liberal bases,' in a spirit of reciprocity, such, in fact, as might be expect e ,'" f ore a power which has so constantly shown goodwill towar d Greece. The following are the p r i nc ip a l p rov i s i ons , Greek vessels on entering or leaving the ports of the Unit e ' . Kingdom, and all English vessels on entering or leaving the: ports of Greece, are to pay no other dues or charges ths• sl A those to which the ships of the two nations arc subject" in their own ports. All the productions of the soil or manufacture of the States, subject to the contracting parties, the importation or exportation of which is or shall be allowed in native vessels, will also enjoy this privilege in vessels belonging to the other party, no Pr e " ference or advantage being allow a bl e , as f ar as the purchas e i of those articles is concerned, in consideration of the yes ( ' which shall have transported them. This arrangement is ar . plicable to articles not the produce of the soil or manufactu re . of the states subject to the contracting parties. Art. 6 d e .: fines the nationality of the ships. Art. 9 grants to Greco. subjects trading in Greek vessels with British India the same" facilities and privileges as are enjoyed by the most favoure cl nations. Other articles settle the civil and religious 'viewing between the contracting parties, and also the nomination of Con' suls in the different ports of each. Finally, Art. 15 declares that the treaty shall remain in force for ten years from its rati fication." A few nights since an attempt, happily unsuccess ful was made on the life of Mr. J. Smith, of Stanstead..n ear Chichester, the highly-respected steward of Charles DII00: Esq. Mr. Smith's residence is situated within Stanst'sa4 Park, at about fifty feet from the road; the ground ir.otor dlately behind the houses rises, from which circumsta - Ace tn a passer-by is enabled to look directly down into the -ivindows, one of which is that of Mr. Smith's bedrpom. About two o'clock in the morning a gun loaded with slugs ',vas fired from! the road into the bedroom, but the shot passi.ng over the be d, lodged in the wall. After a lapse of two or three minutes another gun was fired, but the direction of the aim was altered, the contents of the piece taking the centre of the window:. Mr. Smith, however, had presence of mind enough to rems , n still in bed, to which alone he owes preservation, as bad be risen and presented himself at die window his destruction 011,3' have been certain; and it appears as if it was the impre ssion' on the mind of the ass ass i n that such would have been ti .1° care, as he waited before he discharged the second peice at .out time enough to allow Mr. Smith to rise and reach the win dow. Every exertion has bcen made to discover tti,,e per petrator of this d e lib era t e a ct, but without avail.— xrightos Herald. TEE-TOTAL r s M.—Last cli Friday nrtgaking of the a largo party of Teetotallers regaled thems ewes by v pa beverage th a t c h eers w ith ou t inebr', a ti ng , a t the Lecture Room of the M ec h an i cs ' I ns tit u ti on , ' t Ipswich, which was pro fusely ' e decorated with laurels and c'tier evergreens. The walls were. also hung with bautwra, a'.0.1 placards indicative of the princi ples of the ~S,i4ety, 7 ..mong which were the following " DrimkPußess is. In 'agg• from which all vices may be batched '' The service of virtue is cheap, but vicious pleasures are tlaariy purchased"--" Drunkards shall not inherit the don\ of G0d"......“ Temperance is Nature's best physic. .4.;"cr teat, the Chair was taken by R. D. Alexander, E!r arid the meeting was addressed by the Rev. Samuel Wise- Mtn, of Norwich, and others, in appropriate and exciAlent speeclAtii .11 CP:7: 4.cy- ricaoZ, WITH WHICH THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1838.